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by imiric 6mo ago
While creating good software is as much of an art as it is a science, this is not why the craft is important. It is because people who pay attention to detail and put care into their work undoubtedly create better products. This is true in
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by imiric 6mo ago
That's amusing, but it's another logical fallacy (non sequitur). :) Was advertising necessary to produce all of this inarguably useful technology? Is this technology somehow unique in the world? There are alternatives to all of th
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by imiric 6mo ago
> You could just as easily see it as the best minds are building huge amounts of amazing, free technology and need a way to pay for it. That's a false dichotomy. First of all, the technology is far from "free". It's e
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by imiric 6mo ago
Those books look amazing! *_* Snatched the collection. Thanks for mentioning it!
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by imiric 6mo ago
It looks like HN's new AI guideline is working as intended.
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by imiric 6mo ago
> Education worked to cut cigarette use Ah, yes, it was education, and certainly not strong regulation of how cigarettes are produced, marketed, and sold. Educating the youth is why vaping and smoking is not cool anymore.
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by imiric 6mo ago
What "free speech" exactly? Do you think that such a thing actually exists on platforms controlled by giant corporations? This "free speech" is heavily regulated by opaque algorithms and very specific terms of service.
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by imiric 6mo ago
Notice that I said "many people". I have no way of knowing what your affiliation or agenda is, or even if you're human. That doesn't change the fact that many people here are indeed biased in favor of Big Tech, and at
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by imiric 6mo ago
It's ridiculous that you're getting downvoted, you're 100% right. Though it's not unexpected given the forum. Many people here are either directly employed by social media companies and Big Tech, or are inside that bubbl
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by imiric 6mo ago
Hey, that's a perfectly reasonable stance, and I can relate to it. Apologies for working around it and putting the code out there against your wishes. If you check my post history, you can see how opposed I am to these new tools, and &
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by imiric 6mo ago
To be fair, the .xpi is just a .zip file, and the JS isn't minimized. I vibe-converted it to a userscript[1], but it doesn't work for me in qutebrowser because it depends on profile data fetched from ` https://hn-trustsp
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by imiric 6mo ago
I agree that it was a tragedy, but the cultural and religious tensions have existed in the Balkans for centuries. Tito's strong leadership, charisma, "bratstvo i jedinstvo", etc., managed to keep it together, often by sheer f
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by imiric 6mo ago
I think you're underestimating the significance of Yugoslavia in its heyday (~1960-1980). It was a major political power not just in the region, but globally. Tito led and co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement, and effectively maintained
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by imiric 6mo ago
Great, so how do you know this stuff works? Did you evaluate it against other approaches? How do you know it's actually reliable? The Vercel team had some interesting findings[1]: > In 56% of eval cases, the skill was never invoked.
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by imiric 6mo ago
> Why isn't it "worth discussing"? Because it's obviously not true. The second sentence follows the first. > There are many, many folks living their lives as fully as they can right now who are convinced these thin
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by imiric 6mo ago
Modern "skills" and Markdown formats of the day are no different than "save the kittens". All of these practices are promoted by influencers and adopted based on wishful thinking and anecdata.
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by imiric 6mo ago
> You only hurt yourself with that attitude. Funny, others seem more hurt by it. > AI might take your job. I'm not the one "grieving the loss of his career". :)
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by imiric 6mo ago
Ah, that's great, sounds like the ideal working environment. So, which company is it again?
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by imiric 7mo ago
Great story, thanks for sharing. RIP John. I kind of miss the age of freeware and shareware. It was often created by passionate individuals who put in a lot of care into the end product, which made it a joy to use. Once you paid for the sof
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by imiric 7mo ago
There's something so appealing about those fvwm window borders, aliased font, crisp graphics, and the simple and intuitive UI of xv. There's nothing jumping at you to get your attention, no ambiguous UI elements and dark patterns,
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by imiric 7mo ago
Interesting project, but... > BUILT ON OPEN STANDARDS. PRIVATE WHEN NEEDED. > Running a private group chat? As soon as the AT protocol supports private data, we'll work on implementing it and giving you the option to create priva
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by imiric 7mo ago
You lost me there. :) The question of whether the current generation of "AI" can think, whether it is conscious, let alone whether it can suffer(!), is not even worth discussing. It should be obvious to anyone who understands how
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by imiric 7mo ago
On one hand: sure. On the other, it's very different when companies explicitly design their products to be as addictive as possible. We've been through this with Big Tobacco already. Nicotine and other tobacco substances are addic
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by imiric 7mo ago
I've come across that quote several times, and reach the same conclusion as you. While I share Dijkstra's sentiment that "thinking machines" is largely a marketing term we've been chasing for decades, and this new c
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by imiric 7mo ago
"AGI" is a marketing term, and benchmarks like this only serve to promote relative performance improvements of "AI" tools. It doesn't mean that performance in common tasks actually improves, let alone that achieving
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by imiric 7mo ago
> You don’t need to research the best way to do X, just verify that X works via tests and documentation. "Just verify" is glossing over a lot of difficult work, though. It doesn't just involve checking whether the program
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by imiric 7mo ago
Banning it is tackling the problem at the wrong end. Social media, and Big Tech in general, should be heavily regulated, and certain behavior strongly fined, including criminal prosecution and prison sentences for repeat offenders. But we a
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by imiric 7mo ago
I have no idea what you're talking about.
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by imiric 7mo ago
I rarely come across people who flat out say "it's not useful". They exist, but IME they're the minority. Rather, I hear a lot of nuanced opinions of how the tech is useful in some scenarios, but that the net benefit i
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by imiric 7mo ago
> "Software authors should have basic decency and respect for the users of their software." Why? Not at all. Because that's the core reason why we build software in the first place. We solve problems for people. Software d

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